#for the month of april ##here's the game plan: - break from alcohol (can you moderate?) - eat half as much - embrace boredom ###and - "consider how you would solve your immediate problem without adding anything new" - "just ship—" remember the 80% plan > Tennessee Williams speaks with candour and conviction: "Why does a man drink? There's two reasons, separate or together. 1 He's scared shitless of something. 2. He can't face the truth." I'm a little tired of the sweaty confessional, the salacious off-gassing of bacteria that is the product of defensively self-elevating, imitative passionization. > "A short story can be written on a bottle," Fitzgerald told his editor Max Perkins, "but for a novel you need the mental speed that enables you to keep the whole pattern in your head and ruthlessly sacrifice the sideshows." (2015)